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In other words Rufo is misusing “Critical Race Theory” in a similar manner as “Black Lives Matter” and “Anti Racism” is misused.
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In other words Rufo is misusing “Critical Race Theory” in a similar manner as “Black Lives Matter” and “Anti Racism” is misused.
The difference is that BLM is a popular movement among civilians. Anti-CRT is being pushed by taxpayer funded republican politicians who are more interested in the time honoured passtime of race baiting than the employment. health, quality of life and education of their population.
Exactly.
Look at some of his stuff, it's not all perfect but many of the leaked documents are horrifying:
https://christopherrufo.com/articles/
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“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Again, the point was never about the concept of white privilege, but rather how certain people misuse it.
I've seen similar things occur (and have on a number of occasions in various places suffered from them myself when these same "woke SJWs and feminists" have assumed and assigned a racial heritage to myself - Either you disclose personal information and get attacked by racists on one side, or don't disclose and so get attacked by the racists on the other...) It's disappointing that those people are unable to see beyond a person's "race" to the actual individual but that is a reflection on them and their character, not their victim's.
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In other words Rufo is misusing “Critical Race Theory” in a similar manner as “Black Lives Matter” and “Anti Racism” is misused.
The difference is that BLM is a popular movement among civilians. Anti-CRT is being pushed by taxpayer funded republican politicians who are more interested in the time honoured passtime of race baiting than the employment. health, quality of life and education of their population.
And BLM and “woke” ideologies etc is being funded and promoted by cooperations. Yes consumers can elect to hurt companies by electing to not spend money. Voters can choose to not vote Republican.
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Corporations face lawsuits on many fronts.
They likely have to have this kind of training so they can show they make an effort.
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They likely have to have this kind of training so they can show they make an effort.
That's a bingo.
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Isn't this a chicken-egg situation though? corporations never started this type of thing out of the goodness of their hearts.
For example, H&M clothing spent millions on promoting "re-wearing" as a way of reducing carbon footprints and exploiting sweatshops. But the ad campaign didn't make sense since they are major clothing firm and they were shooting themselves in the foot by telling potential customers to recycle clothes rather than spend their money in their stores??
Like petrol companies companies promoting renewable energy. I'll pose the question, why would they do this?
In getting caught up in the granular issues the big picture is being missed. We have entered a new "zeitgeist" like back in the 1960s and in the 1980s where now global issues that have transnational importance are eroding silly little beliefs that people want to cling onto like a dirty old security blanket. There are bigger fish to fry.
Companies want to be good corporate citizens of the world. The republican party are appealing to their confused supporters pretending they can turn back to the clock to the "good old days". They are selling something they can't deliver.
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Isn't this a chicken-egg situation though? corporations never started this type of thing out of the goodness of their hearts.
For example, H&M clothing spent millions on promoting "re-wearing" as a way of reducing carbon footprints and exploiting sweatshops. But the ad campaign didn't make sense since they are major clothing firm and they were shooting themselves in the foot by telling potential customers to recycle clothes rather than spend their money in their stores??
Like petrol companies companies promoting renewable energy. I'll pose the question, why would they do this?
In getting caught up in the granular issues the big picture is being missed. We have entered a new "zeitgeist" like back in the 1960s and in the 1980s where now global issues that have transnational importance are eroding silly little beliefs that people want to cling onto like a dirty old security blanket. There are bigger fish to fry.
Companies want to be good corporate citizens of the world. The republican party are appealing to their confused supporters pretending they can turn back to the clock to the "good old days". They are selling something they can't deliver.
Money is always the number 1 consideration with companies. Decisions on how to make the most money are made by humans. A lot of the decision makers at these companies did learn “woke” or proto “woke” ideologies in college so the probably believe in it in some way. Most of the younger employees are products of the lefty education system and are demanding these things. In order to keep thier employees from rebelling they feel they have to give in.
Everybody saw the murder of George Floyd over and over again. NT “hive mind” and emotionalism created a universal demand to do something NOW.
I believe the 60s were a time of major social changes and now is a time of revolutionary change. But the 80s? Technological change yes but social and political retrenchment. A lot of the 60s changes were rolled back.
Colorblindness as a goal, not wanting to cancel a person based on a 10 year old bad tweet are not silky little beliefs.
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Wait? what...were you alive in the 1980s AS? I was. There were major social changes that have ripples to this day
1. End of the cold war
2. fall of Russia and the Berlin wall
3. End of fear of nuclear war which had been casting a shadow since the 1950s
2. Emergence of the expanded EU to include free soviet states
3. Emergence of capitalist China (this made Australia very very wealthy)
4. drugs became freely available
5. free sex was ramapant in the 1980s
6. rise of AIDS
7. the 80s finished with a GFC that we have never quite got over
8. US enters the middle east in Afghanistan and starts process for later middle eastern instability
Mature societies are capable of striking a balance and negotiating boundaries of what is feasible. If you are referring to Kevin Hart, yes he missed out on hosting the Oscars but he's more than made up for it making millions of dollars in other ways.
Sure, if its that simple then give the US back to the Native Americans right. no hard feelings.
Shouldn't Australia be given back to the aborigines then?
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